The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Winning the Merit Award for Un-built work at the 2010 AIA New York Design Awards, the design of the Chung-Nam Government Complex successfully combines traditionally divergent elements: nature and the built environment; and government and civic spaces. The complex, designed by H Associates, Haeahn Architecture, and EDAW is set in the heartland of South Korea [...]

Green roofs prove even more effective in fighting global warming than first thought By Jeff Salton (Ecogizmo) You only have to watch a TV show in which the camera flies over any major city to realize the numbers of ugly, stark, gray, flat roofs that occupy millions of square feet but contribute nothing to the [...]

By the British Ecological Society Bumblebee experts have discovered a way of breeding the Short-haired Bumblebee in captivity, removing the last major hurdle for its successful reintroduction to the UK. Announcing the news at the British Ecological Society’s “Gardening for wildlife” event at the British Science Festival today [Monday 7th September], Dr Nikki Gammans will [...]

From Ecogizmo By Jeff Salton You only have to watch a TV show in which the camera flies over any major city to realize the numbers of ugly, stark, gray, flat roofs that occupy millions of square feet but contribute nothing to the environment. It’s almost an ‘out of sight, out of mind’ attitude we [...]

Terragrams is a podcast series disseminating discussions about the landscape. As our societal conscience and appreciation of the landscape heightens, Terragrams provides a wide portal into landscape architecture and the lives and thoughts of the professionals who shape it. The project aims at capturing, distributing and archiving these voices. It is an easily accessible, open [...]

Venlo, the Netherlands, is joining the sustainability movement with its new municipal building. World Architecture News reports the building, designed by Hans Goverde of Kraaijvanger • Urbis, will have two terraced green houses. The green houses will act like green roofs in that they will provide natural insulation and use storm water runoff. The building [...]

Chicago Tops North America for Most Green Roof Installed! Toronto, Canada – May 20, 2009 – Green Roofs for Healthy Cities, the green roof industry association is pleased to announce the results from its Fourth Annual Industry Survey of Corporate Members completed green roof projects in 2008. The survey indicates a US growth rate of [...]

Dragonfly, A Metabolic Farm For Urban Agriculture New York City 2009 By Vincent Callebaut Architectures Excerpts from Vincent Callebaut Architectures: “Architecture has to serve a new agriculture and to design for the new social desire for ecologic mutation and food autonomy! The Dragonfly project suggests building a prototype of an urban farm offering a mixed [...]

Amazing project but they forgot to include Urban Farming. Anyway, it is already an amazing step from what we have got today, isn’t it? The future looks bright! By Karen Cilento (ArchDaily) The Zuidkas, an experimental project commissioned by the Government Building Agency, challenges architects with an imaginary office building of over 11,000 square meters [...]